Wow, time really does fly. It’s been almost a year since the NX was first spoken of. So in that space of time, what’s been happening with it? Okay, so we know it is codenamed the ‘NX’ and Nintendo plans to use it to achieve high profits again. Anything else? Oh yes, how could I have forgotten: we have enough rumors to fill the whole state of Texas—twice!
Two married costume designers share stories from a decade of traveling the globe with Nintendo.
In a YouTube video showing Nintendo Switch owners how to create a Nintendo Account, Nintendo of America revealed that Bowser is canonically 34 years old.
TG: “Most of us also grew up with Nintendo, likely forming a nostalgic connection with games that have long been crowned as our personal favourites. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker was an experience that shaped my view on open world fantasy, and Super Mario 64 changed my life like it did for millions of others. These titles have earned their place in history, and remain loved to this day for so many worthwhile reasons. We replay them and beg for remasters all while delving into their worlds time and time again because they mean that much to us. It’s a shame then that the company behind them often kicks its own sweet darlings to the curb.”
I never got the love for Nintendo games personally. The annoying vocalizations and ugly character designs do nothing for me.
Don't forget the constant hand holding with tutorials. Learn this new ability by pressing Y, now prove that you can press Y 8 times before you can move on....
Another very weird article.
Nintendo is a great company by almost all possible normal measures. The biggest one being: their own staff is happy, and they seem to be very happy, well compensated and retain rate is solid. They are also financially very stable, profitable, and cash rich, so shareholders love them.
Overall it is an extremely creative group of people, and their mission statement is fantastic as well "to put smiles on the faces of everyone we touch. We do so by creating new surprises for people across the world to enjoy together." The social impact is also massive, not to speak culturally. Additionally, they have a really strong core business, high customer retention rate and loyalty. Nintendo's reputation is extremely good, I think in the US alone they are 9th most reputable company, their customer service is better than the average company. Plus, the press gives them a pass, because they are Nintendo. But there's a reason why they do that, it's not "because they are Nintendo", there are more layers to the argument.
Then, then there's the random negative gamers online...and their "reputation" which is inside their heads. And their western ideas of how a Japanese company should behave or what they should do. But they have no right to ask a company to do anything for them, because they can vote with their wallets.
There's a small vocal community online who dislikes Nintendo for what they are, but then again, there's always a small vocal community that dislikes something.
Nintendo also disagrees with the Western world about IP, but most people call Westerners "hidoi!" when they emulate Tears of the Kingdom and do not experience it the way Nintendo wanted them (even if it is not the best visual way), because it is a matter of principle to them (Japanese are very much against anything close to plagiarism, and there are laws that are tight about creative works copying etc.)
The Western Braveheart "freedoom!" shouters need to understand that it is not an American company, nor they need to behave like one. They can have their own fights based on their principles (against emulation). And they very well may lose the battle with that and change, or find a new audience.
In the end, it is so very simple. Don't buy the products if you don't like a company, but there's no need to paint a picture that is unrealistic about Nintendo either.
I hate virtually everything about their business practices, actually. Suing everybody for virtually anything, shooting down fan projects, games they never let devalue, their online infrastructure and how they handle BC.
They're lucky they make great games, because that's the only thing I feel they do right.
my issue with them, is the complete refusal to have decent tech for us.
and their odd censorship and lawsuits for modders.
no? nintendo really needs a console that can directly compete with xbox/PS4. if they announced, and released this too late in the generation, it'd be the Wii U all over again. They really need to have this on the market either late this year or early next year.
Yes, they did. They should not have announced it (that it was in development) until they were ready to talk about it. It was announced when it was due to speculation that Nintendo was going to go mobile and leave the console business (their mobile plans had only just been announced). What they should have done was simply state that there would be a successor to the Wii U, but say nothing of it until they actually had something to say.
Every other day there is a new article or video with the title "Everything we know about the Nintendo NX" which is absolutely nothing.
Well they didn't really announced it but acknowledged it's existence to couple it with the cell phone plans because they knew internet trolls would write a million more "Nintendo is dead" articles or use their selective hearing to completely misunderstand, which they did anyway.
Kinda i think.. Some people that might've wanted to invest in a wii u might want to hold off now since they know a better console is coming.. Then again, true nintendo fans already have a wii u or will buy one and the NX anyway.. IDK good question
No, I don't think they made a mistake by announcing the code-name earlier than planned.
Nintendo's mistake lies in NOT CLARIFYING WHY THEY DID IT.
Yet another example of bad PR people in Nintendo's company, which isn't surprising given how bad their advertisement efforts for major titles seemed to be over the past gen or two.
Here's what everyone decrying Nintendo lately has forgotten; This wasn't done to try and kill off anything or start anything too soon.
I'm putting this down in caps to get the point across, but I'll stop afterwards:
NINTENDO'S ORIGINAL INTEND IN ANNOUNCING THE CODE NAME FOR THE NX EARLY WAS TO COUNTER RUMORS THAT THEY WOULD BE DROPPING CONSOLES IN FAVOR OF PHONE DEVELOPMENT.
THEY ALWAYS START DEVELOPMENT ON A NEW CONSOLE SOON AFTER THEIR LATEST ONE IS COMPLETED.
IT WAS THE CASE WITH WII TO WII U, AND FROM WII U TO NX, AND IT WILL BE THE SAME A YEAR OR TWO AFTER THE NX LAUNCHES REGARDLESS OF HOW WELL IT SELLS.
IT WAS NOT TO SIGNIFY AN EARLY DEATH OF THE WII U, OR TO SIGNIFY GOING THIRD PARTY.
ONLY NAY-SAYERS THAT HATE THE COMPANY ARE GOING TO TELL YOU OTHERWISE.
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So really, it's just a bunch of people over-reacting to what has been a very natural cycle over the years; that of Nintendo continuing to think up new console ideas.
They'll continue making consoles so long as they have enough money flowing trough the company to do so.
And with their upcoming plans in mobile and theme parks to leverage their IP's outside of games, I don't think they're going to run out of the profits needed to continue video game consoles any year soon, no matter how the NX does.